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The European Central Bank says the economic fortunes in the euro currency bloc are continuing to shrink, but should advance modestly next year. The bank kept its key interest rate […]
Russian president Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila have announced their split on June 6. In an interview with the state-owned television channel R ...
Offices closed, hotel bookings canceled, trains not running, industrial plants shuttered and businesses under water – the economic impact of the ...
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan returns to his country Thursday, after spending several days in North Africa as protesters at home called ...
The European Commission has published its annual convergence report on Latvia, concluding that the country was ready to join the euro zone on January 1 2014 and proposing that the […]
Bulgaria’s Government has appointed Anzhela Toneva as the new head of the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) and has filled the other six vacancies in the regulator by […]
Up to 55 000 people could be evacuated in the Budapest area, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told MTI this morning. The main evacuation would be in the Óbuda area. […]
In a move apparently designed to trip up the proceedings of Parliament as a show of force, Boiko Borissov’s GERB party delayed the start of the sitting on June 6 […]
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to be the lightest planet ever to be directly observed outside of our Solar System. Astronomers made the discovery using the […]
Water levels of the Danube near the Bulgarian town of Svishtov are rising but authorities have said that there is no cause for concern about flooding, while the countries of […]
